Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī

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Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, better known as Ibn al-Baytar, was a prominent 13th-century Andalusian botanist, pharmacist, and physician renowned for his influential works on medicinal plants and pharmacology.

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instanceOf Andalusian scholar
botanist
human
medieval scientist
pharmacist
physician
basedIn Cairo
birthPlace Málaga
al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus
citizenship Almohad Caliphate
linked to: Almohad dynasty
contributedTo classification of medicinal substances
critical evaluation of earlier pharmacological sources
culture Andalusian
deathPlace Damascus
described hundreds of medicinal plants and substances
employer Ayyubid court in Egypt
linked to: Ayyubid house
era 13th century
fieldOfWork botany
materia medica
medicine
pharmacology
influenced later Islamic pharmacology
medieval European pharmacology
influencedBy Dioscorides
Galen
Ibn Sīnā
linked to: Avicenna

al-Rāzī
linked to: Al-Razi (Rhazes)
knownFor pharmacological encyclopedias
systematic compilation of earlier medical and botanical knowledge
works on medicinal plants
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
movement Islamic Golden Age science
name Ibn al-Bayṭār
Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī
Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Ibn al-Bayṭār
linked to: Ibn al-Bayṭār
notableWork Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aghdhiya
Kitāb al-Mughnī fī al-adwiya al-mufrada
al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aghdhiya
occupation botanist
pharmacist
physician
positionHeld chief herbalist in Egypt
religion Islam
travelledTo Asia Minor
Egypt
North Africa
Syria
workSubject diet and nutrition in medicine
medicinal plants
simple drugs

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Ibn al-Baytar fullName Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī
Ibn al-Baytar name Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī
Ibn al-Bayṭār fullName Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī